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Because while many of us will enjoy a childish giggle while driving down Bush Park, research suggests rude-sounding names can actually harm the value of your property.

DISCLAIMER I: Although a great deal of immaturity went into the making of this article, you might accidentally learn some fascinating facts about the history of Plymouth. Saying that, there are some borderline rude words and phrases that some readers may find offensive. Sorry not sorry.

A study for website NeedaProperty.com looked at the impact living in a street with a cheeky name could have on the value of your home.

Streets with naughty names in other parts of the country (and rest assured, we WILL be naming them in this article) could have lower property prices as some people will not want to live on a suggestive-sounding street.

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Properties on streets with innuendo-laden names were found to be around one fifth or £84,000 cheaper on average than other homes situated nearby.

Minge Lane in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, was found to have the most embarrassment value, followed by Slag Lane in Lowton, Lancashire.

LOL: Fanny Hands Lane in Lincolnshire is apparently named after Frances Hands, the niece of a local farmer, who lived on the street (Image: Google)

Residents of Fanny Hands Lane in Ludford, Lincolnshire said they did not think it made the houses any cheaper.

NeedaProperty.com commissioned a statistician to compare property prices in the 15 rude-sounding streets with homes situated on all other streets within a one quarter of a mile radius, using Land Registry sales figures from 2014.

Property prices on 11 out of the 15 streets were found to be 'significantly cheaper' than local values typically.

Plymouth's rude place names

DISCLAIMER II: We're not historians and, while we have looked into the origin of each street name, we've not researched it with what we could honestly describe as full thoroughness.

Sorry about that but we were distracted by innuendo.

Still, as we warned you earlier, you might inadvertently learn something.

If you know where these names we can't explain have really come from then please email us - we'd love to know.

Admirals Hard

LOL: Admirals Hard near the Royal Willie Yard (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Right on the water down in Stonehouse. Facing stiff competition from all the attractions that have sprung up at the Royal William Yard these days though as the area's place to be seen. Despite the cygnets.

What's the name all about, then? Obviously taking its name from the Royal Navy and its seamen. Okay, we'll come clean, it's quite dull. Admirals Hard is simply the hard, or landing point, where the Admiral would have got off his boat.

Rudeness rating: 9/10

Bladder Meadow

LOL: Bladder Meadow in Manadon (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Manadon.

What's the name all about, then? Plymouth used to have a Bladder Lane - but the name was changed at the request of nearby St Boniface's Catholic College. It's now Boniface Lane. Which pees us right off because that's just not silly. Killjoys. Anyway, it was named after Bladder Meadow on the Manadon Estate - still going strong as a park today - which in turn is thought to have been named after the bladderwort plant that could be found there once upon a time.

Rudeness rating: 3/10

Brest Road

LOL: Brest Road used to be home to The Herald and the Western Morning News (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Derriford. The Derriford International Business Park to be boringly accurate.

What's the name all about, then? Plymouth has been twinned with the French city of Brest, in Brittany, since 1963. We assume French people do not find this funny and consider any suggestive connotations nothing more than a boo-boo.

Rudeness rating: 6/10

Bush Park

LOL: Bush Park is home to some big businesses (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Estover. Another street name from a frankly dull business park.

What's the name all about, then? No idea. Probably a park that had a lot of overgrown bushes that needed a trim. But we're making it up.

Rudeness rating: 7/10

Butt Park Road

LOL: Butt Park Road in Honicknowle - which coincidentally used to be near Knackersknowle (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Honicknowle.

What's the name all about, then? We honestly have no idea. But Laura Cummings told us: "I used to live in "Yum Yum Cottage" on Butt Park Road. My kids always laughed walking past the sign when we lived there."

Rudeness rating: 7/10

Clittaford Road

LOL: Clittaford Road in Southway (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Southway.

What's the name all about, then? Clittaford was a farm at Tamerton Foliot. Er, that's it.

Rudeness rating: 6/10

Cockington Close

LOL: Cockington Close in Leigham (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Leigham.

What's the name all about, then? It's not entirely clear. But Cockington is a delightful thatched village and country park in Torbay. So maybe that. The name Cockington, though, is thought to derive from Saxon terms meaning either. 'the settlement near the springs' or 'the place of the red meadow'. So maybe that.

Rudeness rating: 6/10

Crapstone

LOL: Crapstone found fame after being featured in an RAC television advert featuring footballer-turned-hardman-movie-star Vinnie Jones (Image: Paul Slater)

Where is it? On Dartmoor. And previously on TV. It's a village between Plymouth and Yelverton. But you know that already.

What's the name all about, then? Vinnie Jones came up with it while drinking razorblades in an East End pub with the managing director of the RAC - because he thought the place was a dump. Well, either that or it's derived from "crop of stones", many of which you will find nearby. Take your pick. We know which one we're pushing hard for.

Rudeness rating: 5/10

Dickiemoor Lane

LOL: Dickiemoor Lane in Honicknowle (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Honicknowle. Around the corner from Butt Park Road, in actual fact.

What's the name all about, then? Dickiemoor Lane was named after a man in Honicknowle who bred donkeys. And that's not even a joke. We ass-ume - but aren't sure - that he was called Dickie Moore. Carly Brookshaw told us a little while ago: “I’m massively embarrassed. A few times I have started to laugh on the phone. The lady that I share the house with finds it funny too and it’s a standing joke where we work.”

Rudeness rating: 4/10

The Hoe

LOL: Hoe Foreshore - it's a sign (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? If you don't know where the Hoe is then shove off and read a different website. Like numbskull.com.

What's the name all about, then? It's derived from the old English term which meant "high ground". Which makes sense fore shore.

Rudeness rating: 5/10

Looe Street

LOL: Looe Street on the Barbican (Image: Stock image)

Where is it? The Barbican.

What's the name all about, then? You may think it's named after Looe - but we're going to flush out that assumption. The name Looe Street came about from swine running loose in the area, apparently. Though historians seem to be keeping a lid on exactly why there were swine running loose in the area.

Rudeness rating: 5/10.

Looe

LOL: Looe in Cornwall (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? South East Cornwall. Which, depending on how much you love/hate The Herald is either "near Plymouth" or so far away you "JUST DON'T CARE".

What's the name all about, then? It originates from the Cornish word Logh, meaning deep water inlet. Which the coastal village sort of is - particularly when it floods.

Rudeness rating: 3/10

Love Lane

What's the name all about, then? One of Plymouth's many lost streets, Love Lane was off Love Road and used to boast beautiful Elizabethan properties. It later became Westwell Street, then disappeared altogether. It was roughly where Basket Street now is. Except that's gone too. All that's left is Basket Ope, which leads from Vauxhall Street on to the Parade. Oh, and we're telling you all this useless history because we have absolutely no clue about the root of the name. And it's plainly not rude anyway.

Rudeness rating: 1/10

Pennycomequick

LOL: Pennycomequick is by the railway station (Image: Stock images)

Where is it? Between Stoke, Mutley, Stonehouse and the city centre. Now largely known for its busy roundabout.

What's the name all about, then? Your chortles may be slightly premature - because we actually have answer to this one. Local historian Derek Tait explains that Pennycomequick is thought to mean “the valley at the head of the creek”. “Pen in Welsh means ‘head’, y means ‘the’, cwm (pronounced come) means valley and krik means ‘creek’,” he said. So you have to be really childish to find this rude. Which we are.